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Duke University Hospital has reached an undisclosed settlement with the family of a Mexican teenager who died after being given a heart-lung transplant of the wrong blood type. The girl, Jésica Santillán , 17, died last year, 15 days after the...

A year-old baby died in August at Children's Medical Center in Dallas after a surgical error destroyed her liver and doctors tried to save her with a transplant but mistakenly gave her a liver of the wrong blood type, according to a lawsuit filed on...

The death of Jésica Santillán, the 17-year-old given a heart and lung transplant from a donor with an incompatible blood type, is influencing the Congressional debate on President Bush's proposal to limit damages in medical malpractice cases and...

The world knows about Jésica because of Mack. She is Jésica Santillán, the 17-year-old Mexican immigrant who died on Saturday after undergoing two heart-lung transplants. He is Mark Edward Mahoney, known as Mack, her benefactor, who, charmed...

The family of the teenage girl who died after undergoing two heart-lung transplants prepared her funeral today as lawyers began plotting a legal case. The medical examiner will conduct an autopsy Monday to determine exactly what caused the death...

A girl died today after two long weeks in which she received the wrong heart and lungs in one transplant operation and then suffered brain damage and complications after a rare second one. The girl, Jésica Santillán, 17, a Mexican immigrant who...

The medical error that led surgeons to put the wrong organs into a teenager at Duke University Hospital on Feb. 7 was not the first embarrassment in recent years for this elite medical institution. Nor are such problems limited to Duke. In 1999,...

A day after doctors performed a desperate second heart and lung transplant on a teenage girl, they announced she had permanent brain damage and little chance to live. The girl, Jésica Santillán, a 17-year-old Mexican immigrant who came to North...

The Duke University Hospital surgeon who gave Jésica Santillán a heart and lung transplant on Feb. 7 does not recall receiving or requesting information about the donor's blood type, the university said yesterday. The mistake was ''the critical...

Jésica Santillán waited three years for the wrong heart. Today, she may have received the right one, nearly two weeks after Duke University Hospital mistakenly gave her a heart and lung transplant from a donor with an incompatible blood type....